Reading List

Relevant reading for the course. both books and online, please check regularly as it will be updated.

Links to relevant online reading

design

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/
• http://www.reluct.com/
• http://mocoloco.com/
• http://www.sensoryimpact.com/
• http://www.core77.com/
• http://www.idfuel.com/
• http://www.joshrubin.com/coolhunting/
• http://www.halfbakery.com/
• http://feed.proteinos.com/
• http://www.dezain.net/
• http://www.landliving.com/
• http://www.designsponge.blogspot.com/
• http://www.jnd.org/ Don Norman's website (design writing)

eco-design

• http://www.worldchanging.com/
• http://www.treehugger.com
• http://www.inhabitat.com/
• http://www.eco.barkingcrickets.org/
• http://www.cfsd.org.uk/ The Centre for Sustainable Design
• http://www.02.org/
• http://www.pre.nl/links/ecodesign_links.htm ecodesign links
• http://www.branchhome.com/ sustainable design retail

interaction design/ art

• http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
• http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/
• http://futurefeeder.com/
• http://infosthetics.com
• http://beverlytang.com/
• http://twenty1f.com/
• http://www.turbulence.org/blog/
• http://www.textually.org/
• http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/
• http://lib.fo.am/

technology

• http://www.boingboing.net/
• http://uk.gizmodo.com/
• http://www.engadget.com/
• http://www.metafilter.com/
• http://www.wristfashion.com/

Books

General reading

• The Summer Book, Tove Jansson, 2003 (ISBN:0954221710)

Philosphy and Stuff

• One Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse
• The Medium Is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
• The Outsider, Albert Camus
• The Fashion System, Roland Barthes
• Mythologies, Roland Barthes
• The System of Objects, Jean Baudrillard
• Ways of Seeing, John Berger

Design Books

• John Heskett (2002), Toothpicks and Logos, Oxford University Press
• Dormer P. The new spirit in craft and design Crafts Council Catalogue
• Norman Potter (2002), What is a designer, Hyphen Press London
• Contemporary Crafts uk creative industries

Sustainable Design

• Chapman J, Emotionally Durable Design, ISBN:1844071812
• McDonough W, Braungart M, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, ISBN:0865475873

Materials

• Material World 2, Innovative Materials for Architecture and Design, Compiled by: Frame Magazine & Materio, Birkhauser, November 2005
• Smart Materials and New Technologies, Michelle Addington & Daniel L Schodeck, Elsevier October 2004
• Transmaterial: A Catolog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment by Blaine Brownell, Princeton Arch, ISBN:1568985630
• Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance by Matilda McQuaid, Thames & Hudson ISBN:156898507X
• Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe by Suzanne Lee, Thames & Hudson, ISBN:0500512612

Space/ built environment

• The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, Beacon Press Boston, 1958 (ISBN:0807064734)

Local specialist Bookshop

• review ( 10 minutes walk from the college), 131 Bellenden Road, London SE15 4QY, review@btconnect.com 020 7639 7400